It's Friday: Send us your deer stories

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By Kenn Filkins

Sault Ste. Marie Evening News - Sault Ste. Marie, MI

By Kenn Filkins

Posted Sep. 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM

By Kenn Filkins

Posted Sep. 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM

Eastern Upper Peninsula

After a few mild winters — mild by Eastern Upper Peninsula standards — local hunters are eagerly anticipating the annual youth deer hunt, the opening of bow season on October 1 and especially Opening Day – November 15.

On Thursday November 8, we will publish the latest edition of the popular “Deer Camp.”

The publication highlights the stories, adventures and photos of EUP whitetail hunting in Deer Camp '12.

For 13 years the annual EUP deer hunting publication has graced whitetail camps all over the EUP.

This season the special publication will again be filled with EUP stories, recipes and photos.

As usual, we are still seeking items from our readers for this fall's issue.

October 31 is the deadline for stories, pictures and recipes for our annual Deer Camp publication.

Deer Camp will include EUP hunting stories and adventures, local hunting photos, and favorite venison and deer camp recipes.

Again this year we invite our readers to send stories, photos and reports from successful young hunters from the early season. Just a few paragraphs on the hunt would be awesome.

Deer Camp will be released on Thursday, November 8. What made our previous issues so successful were the stories, photos and recipes submitted by readers from throughout the EUP. Please, consider sending in a story, picture or recipe.

Previously, we’ve printed your deer stories. The ones hunters told around the campfire or over coffee. Funny stories, scary tales, big-buck stories, got-lost stories, got-wet tales, it-got-away stories, muzzle-loaders stories, success stories, tales of failure, tall yarns and family fables are all welcome. We invite stories about the deer camp experiences, including snoring stories. Send us stories about pre-hunting trips, scouting, tracking, planning, and historical accounts of a bygone hunting era are of great interest. Local hunting myths and legends are welcome as well.

We are interested in all types of camp narratives — from wild exaggerations to simple tales of a hunt.

We also want your photos of deer camp, of deer blinds, of live deer, of your bucks, of the swamps, woods and fields here in the EUP.

Also send along your favorite recipes. All kinds of venison recipes are invited, but also send along your favorite recipes for the deer camp food.

We want this story collection to become a favorite and read at deer camps and in deer blinds throughout the EUP. Do not let this issue come out without a story from your deer camp. Talk to hunting friends and relatives about their deer stories and get them down on paper or in a computer then send them to us.

• Submissions: Submit type written stories to Deer Camp '12, The Evening News, 109 Arlington St., Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783 or send them by FAX to 632-1222. The best submission is through e-mail to edit@sooeveningnews.com. If you e-mail us a photo please make sure it is at least 6 inches wide and 212 dpi. Also, attach it as a .jpg file. Do not send the photo through Kodak EasyShare or inside a MS Word doc, as those are unusable. We are very interested in historic EUP black-and-white hunting photos.